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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: HughC on Tuesday 11 September 18 14:27 BST (UK)
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Can anyone tell me, please, what is the word after 'disease' ?
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Chronic disease of stomach (I think)
Exhaustion
No medical attendant
Uncertfied
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Many thanks for your swift reply, Liz. You could even be right!
Legible handwriting evidently wasn't a prerequisite for being a registrar.
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It's reasonably tidy handwriting, but a really poor quality scan.
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Is this from Scotland's People? I'm told that if you tell them it's hard to read, they send you a clearer copy without further charge.
Why they can't do that in the first place is a mystery.
Carol
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I agree with Lizdb
Wiggy
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No, not Scotland's People: I suppose we should be grateful for any surviving Irish records being made available free of charge. At least the scan is better than those of many old newspapers on various web sites (or some of the Mormon attempts at scanning books).
Does anyone else find it tidy handwriting? Not I: it's even worse than mine!
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I don't find it difficult handwriting really. Scan isn't great.
Wiggy
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I've certainly seen handwriting a lot worse!
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No, not Scotland's People: I suppose we should be grateful for any surviving Irish records being made available free of charge. At least the scan is better than those of many old newspapers on various web sites (or some of the Mormon attempts at scanning books).
Does anyone else find it tidy handwriting? Not I: it's even worse than mine!
The scan is of the same type as all the many hard-to-read Scotlands People certificates we see on here: they're scanned in 2-colour black and white (rather than greyscale) and the minor pen-strokes (whic include the joins between letters) are lost.
Most of the scans of newspapers, and books, I see on the web are scanned fine. The page is as readable as the original. But it is the OCR software that's the problem which attempts to "transcribe" the page with seemingy no human intervention. That's a totally different problem.